The 2023 longlist features Barbara Kingsolver, who won the prize in 2010 for The Lacuna, while three others – Natalie Haynes, Laline Paull and Elizabeth McKenzie – have previously been shortlisted. Three – Charco Press, Duckworth Books and Rough Trade Books – are involved with the prize for the first time. Nine are debuts (Jennifer Croft, Jacqueline Crooks, Camilla Grudova, Kennedy,Morris, Sheena Patel, Cecile Pin, Parini Shroff and Tara M Stringfellow) and independent publishers represent a quarter of the list. Of the other 13 authors, five are British, five American, one Canadian, one Zimbabwean/American, and one French. Now in its 28th year, the £30,000 prize highlights outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world. Priscilla Morris, a London-born writer who teaches creative writing at UCD, has been longlisted for her debut novel, Black Butterflies, about the siege of Sarajevo, her mother’s native city. Maggie O’Farrell, who won the Women’s Prize for her previous novel, Hamnet, in 2021, has been longlisted for The Marriage Portrait, a historical depiction of Lucrezia, the daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici, a young woman omitted from history. Louise Kennedy has been recognised for her debut novel, Trespasses, a doomed love story set during the Troubles, which was chosen as the Irish Novel of the Year last November. Two Irish authors and a lecturer at UCD are among the 16 writers on the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, which was announced this evening.
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